"CIOs are between a rock and a hard place with respect to the adoption -- make that uncontrolled, unsanctioned adoption -- of SaaS apps by their business users. Turn a blind eye to the use of cloud-based apps by the business and CIOs may be putting their enterprises at greater risk of a data breach -- three times greater risk, according to a recent study from the Ponemon Institute.

Clamping down on shadow apps, on the other hand, risks being labeled a "CI-no," a rubric no CIO can afford to court, even for the sake of information security...."
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"There's nothing special about Heartbleed. It's another flaw in a popular
library that exposed a lot of servers to attack. The danger lies in the
way software libraries are built and whether they can be trusted.

In case you live under a rock, a serious security flaw was disclosed last
week in the widely used OpenSSL library. On a threat scale of 1 to 10,
well known security expert Bruce Schneier rated it an 11. Essentially,
an attacker can send a "heartbeat" request that tricks the server into
sending random memory contents back to the attacker. If the attacker gets
lucky, that memory contains interesting secrets like passwords, session
IDs, Social Security numbers, or even the server's private SSL key..."
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This latest version of NexentaStor delivers significant performance,
reliability and functionality improvements to the award-winning SDS
solution, having passed through rigorous engineering, customer and partner
testing with flying colors. NexentaStor will continue to be available
in two editions: Community Edition (free, full-featured, community
supported software for configurations up to 18TB), and Enterprise Edition
(licensed by the size of the storage pool). NexentaStor 4.0 is Citrix
and VMware Ready and certified to run on a variety of reference hardware
configurations from strategic technology and channel partners.

Building on its leadership position in the emerging, high-growth
Software-Defined Storage market, Nexenta delivers on its promise
of providing software with SMARTS - ever higher levels of Security,
Manageability, Availability, Reliability, lower TCO, and Scalability.
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